(Chapter 12)

On the island, Sung Jin-Woo racked his brain for how to save Cha Hae-In but only to get an answer to his own problem was to reveal the nature of his skill to the others.

And so, the broadcasting was halted by losing the connection again.

"What happened!?" Go Gun-Hee was suddenly stunned after seeing the screen became static again.

"Just relax, Seonsaengnim. Jin-Woo already said for the cameraman to turn off the camera because he will use his skill that can help Hunter Cha Hae-In? But it's either he don't want to reveal it to the public as it is his trump card or it is kinda not acceptable for the public eyes, something like that..."

Shyrveen said in a puzzling words again before he finished his coffee that already turn cold a long time ago.

And added to his thought. '... Skill to control the soul? Or maybe remnants of the individual? If it's really like that, then that tank in his summons was once a human while retaining its skill, like that Taunt... Min Byung-Gu... I see...'

"By the way, Seonsaengnim. Since the raid is already in its 3/4 parts done. Can I go now?"

"... Don't you want to stay longer? I'll try to invite Sung Jin-Woo here to have a talk with you after he was done there."

Go Gun-Hee is still trying to know more about the young man before him, and thinking that if Sung Jin-Woo requested to him about Shyrveen Yñiguez, then there should be something out of ordinary at him.

'So, you can eavesdrop?'

"No, I still need to try these arrows, Seonsaengnim. And we both know that Jin-Woo will decline that."

Shyrveen thought and said while raising the three quivers full of arrows that already arrived a few minutes ago, but one of the quivers is full of the blue feathers and the rest was brown feathers.

Go Gun-Hee can only sighed and stared at the arrows, then remembered the report of Shyrveen to the personnel, to where he found the Pseudo Monster Eagle.

'It seems that the animals outside are starting to change and adapt to the mana that came from the gates... But it still can't explain why the materials of the eagle was higher than that E-Rank monster though...'

"... There's a training area in this building, you can try to use it to your heart's content. Even though I'm a chairman of the Hunter's Association and many things can't be given as privileges but this simple thing can be."

'... Is he suspecting me being a False-Ranker?'

"If you insist, Mr. Chairman. I won't decline you anymore."

Shyrveen stared at Go Gun-Hee and shrugged and thought that there shouldn't be a problem for now if they can see what he can do except for the camouflage...

"Hahaha! That's good!"

Go Gun-Hee was elated after the young man surrender but was stopped by Shyrveen after hearing his request.

"Hmmm... Your request isn't that hard but it still not free, I recommend that you should enter in one of the raid parties for the dungeon, since based on my knowledge, you don't have an experience in raiding but only by surviving in the dungeon breaks which were outside of the gates, right?"

Go Gun-Hee didn't want to insult the young man but there's nothing in any words that can express about that thing.

But Shyrveen can feel it and shake his hand on the air that he can understand and ask Go Gun-Hee again.

"... Can't I take a loan first? I'm planning to do that next week but not now. I'm curious about this Pseudo Monsters, I think they're really rare and hard to find but somehow I've an idea how to hunt one again. Still, I need to check my idea first if its right."

'I only have around 48 hours left before I'll be pulled again to God's Sanctuary. It will be bad if something happened inside the dungeon and I'll disappear...'

Shyrveen said while acting like he was thinking something, but all along was trying to give an excuse since he was still not sure if where he disappeared is where he will reappear too.

"That's a hard thing to do, Mr. Yñiguez. Until you can reach the status of C-Rank Hunter, it will be hard for the association to give you one. So, I can only say that I'm sorry."

"That's too bad then... So... I'll take my leave now, Seonsaengnim."

"Alright."

Shyrveen was escorted by the secretary to the training area for range Hunters that was given to the C-Rank Hunters above, before he was left alone by the secretary then he checks his surroundings.

'Ah... I forgot that the Hunters D-Rank above are in stationary positions around the country... And it seems that the camera is the only thing who is watching me... Well, whatever.'

Shyrveen takes off his upper clothes since he doesn't want it to get wet from the sweats because he is a little bit far away from his home and started stretching first before pulling his summoned bow and did any possible to do with the bow but unfortunately, he can't do some gymnastic moves with it since its a longbow that based on the length of the eagle's wingspan.

Next day.

Shyrveen bought all the things that he can think of that he needs while in God's Sanctuary for more than three weeks there and on his way to his home and will spend all the time before being pulled again. But only to encounter Sung Jin-Woo outside of their apartment building, that he can guess that he was waiting for him to pass by.

"Hyung-nim."

"Oh, Jin-Woo, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just want to give you this."

Sung Jin-Woo shows the three kinds of weapons that he requested to the chairman.

But Shyrveen can only stare at him and open his mouth.

"What's the catch? I didn't do anything to let you owe me a thing or two to give me this... Unless..."

"Yes, Hyung-nim. I'm really curious in the dungeon named God's Sanctuary..."

Sung Jin-Woo stops having patience and said the topic straight to Shyrveen face.

"... What's with you revealing yourself like that?"

"Because it will take me a long time to know if you're just like me or not. And risking... I'm confident that I can overwhelm to defeat you or worst, kill you, if the thing went south, Hyung-nim..."

"... Hee... I guess that's your true feeling then?"

"Yes."

"... But why?"

"King..."

Shyrveen stops for a second after hearing that word again.

"... You're having a conclusion that all of these things that popped up after the great disaster struck were made by someone?"

"Yes and no. If you're an ordinary person, or the same Hunters. I won't confront you like this because I can see that everyone accepted this thing and made it like a common sense now. But when the chairman said to me what you said to him when watching the raid, it made me realize that thing is possible, and was strongly proven when I saw those words on the weird eagle that you brought... It was the first time..."

'First time for those monsters to have a name before their place, outside of the dungeon. Add that the name of the place was something like that. Anyone will be curious about it since most of the human seeks godhood and immortality with powers that can destroy planets and stars...

Does the system came from a different dimension as an omnipotent being? Or maybe made by these higher beings to play with the mortal's lives in this Earth?...'

Sung Jin-Woo said while thinking about these things at the same time. Before or back from the past, he doesn't seek too many details or information about the system but now that someone is like him, a 'unique' that having something weird powers that seems overpower from the rest. For him, maybe it is the time to dive deeper into his power, or specifically into the system...

Shyrveen can see the determination in Sung Jin-Woo's eyes to know something related to his power. But he said something first while looking at their surroundings.

"... Jin-Woo... Can we continue this talk on the deck floor of your apartment building?"

"... Sure, Hyung-nim."

Sung Jin-Woo looks around too and nodded and was the one to take the first step and lead Shyrveen to the deck floor of their apartment, they're not talking to each other until they reached the floor.

Silence, the veil of darkness and the blanket of stars was looming over their heads.

"So, Hyung-nim... Is it okay to follow you to that place?"

"... With that kind of phrase and based on your voice. I can tell that somehow you already guessed and have a surety that I can only go that place alone..."

"I read your reports since it's not that confidential and-"

"You don't believe it because you saw something that I can't see or by anyone else, but you alone can see it, right?"

Sung Jin-Woo was stunned after hearing that Shyrveen got the complete idea about the piece of hint that he dropped earlier about the system, and with this, it's already indicating him that Shyrveen is might also be a "Player" too.

"Then! You're also a "Player", Hyung-nim!?"

He asked Shyrveen with expectation but only to be saddened that he is still alone.

"... That's the bad news here Jin-Woo, I am not. I don't know what happened to me but I can only assure you that something or worst, someone is really behind this thing. I don't know this "Player" that you're talking about, but I was entitled to have this weird ability.

And based on your voice, you don't know much about this power you had and why it makes you different from the rest, right?... And you felt that somehow, you found someone that can relate to your uniqueness now, even if he is an enemy or an ally, which is me, right?"

Sung Jin-Woo sighed and nodded he thought that he can ask someone about the system but it was all in vain. Then some words of Shyrveen sunk in his mind.

"... You already have these conclusions all this time?"

Shyrveen nods while saying. "Yeah, of course. If not, who else can send these dungeons to be gates, give random powers to the humans? Don't forget that we were living normally like mortals before the great disaster struck. Isn't that ringing a bell for you?"

Sung Jin-Woo thought for a minute before finding one answer to that question.

"... Extraterrestrials?"

"Yes, but more accurately, higher beings, Jin-Woo. Any other lifeforms like us in the universe don't have that kind of ability to do that or should be, unless they are Gods."

"... When did you have this kind of thinking?"

Shyrveen then looked straight to Sung Jin-Woo and told him the worst thing answer.

"From the day when I saw my family corpses like nothing but pieces of meats that scattered in all directions, on all different parts of the ground... Start from that day that I'm seeking answers to my questions about why it is like this and it is like that and only to be added by this weird ability that I discovered recently."

'As if, someone is trying...'

Shyrveen didn't want to continue his thinking since he is sure that if its the case. He will cease to exist before achieving his goal...

Sung Jin-Woo felt creeped out after Shyrveen's words sink in his mind while staring at him without emotions and the same with Shyrveen's voice. Even though he already saw how humans were killed by those monsters, but seeing your relatives and family like that, is out of the question.

"... Then can I-"

"I can't answer you with surety, because I don't know yet. Even if we tried, there's a possibility that you will be lost in space and time or any other scenarios that you won't have a chance to get back here again... I don't want to see another family to be sad again because of me."

'And that's the reason why I postpone entering dungeons too...'

For Shyrveen, that's a piece of bad news if it's the case, because the gate is a piece of the realm, only a fracture of dimension that might imprison him forever in that fabric of space once the gate was cleared before he reappears.

Shyrveen leans on the fence and looks at the sight of city lights trying to shine out and erase the night sky. While Sung Jin-Woo was sitting and staring at the stars in the night sky.

"..."

They stop speaking for several minutes and stared at their own spaces while thinking something inside their mind.

Then Shyrveen turns around to look at Sung Jin-Woo and stated.

"By the way, with this topic about our secrets. Why don't we push things to the next level?"

That made Sung Jin-Woo confused a little bit but soon realize what Shyrveen means.

"... Collaboration?"

"Yeah, something like that."

Sung Jin-Woo thought all the possible things that Shyrveen have to have an equal deal with him.

"Hmmm... Why not. I am having a plan to create a guild soon after the thing about the Jeju Island subsides... Is it about the materials of the monsters in that place?"

"You can say that, so far that I can think of, this is the first thing that I can use and deal it with you."

Shyrveen shrugs and waited for Sung Jin-Woo to decide before dropping the bomb, of course, he needs both sides to be in equal even though Sung Jin-Woo is S-Rank Hunter while he is only E-Rank Hunter.

"But they're only around E to C-Rank materials if I remembered correctly about the eagle you brought..."

Sung Jin-Woo hangs his words in the air indicating that it isn't the case. That Shyrveen should have things better than that.

"Of course, but not for a long time. I'm still weak you know."

"So that's why you asked for these weapons? Then why not guns?"

Shyrveen can only shake his head and simply said the first common sense in God's Sanctuary while he smiles at him and pointed at the things on the floor.

"Any weaponry related to modern science is not acceptable and will not work in that place except for cold weapons, only like those weapons and your daggers..."